Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of the subjects, and comparison between patients interviewed by psychiatrists (n=316, included in this report) and those not interviewed by psychiatrists (n=261, not included in this report)

	Original sample (n=577)
Characteristics	Studied group		Group not included in this study
	n= 316	%	n= 261	%	p-value
Gender					0.020a
Female	234	74.0	170	65.1
Marital Status					0.476b
Married/living with a partner	162	51.3	132	50.6
Never married	68	21.5	70	27.8
Divorced/separated/widowed	57	18.0	42	16.1
Not declared	29	9.2	17	6.5
Educational Level (years)					0.174 b
0	16	6.9	21	11.2
1–5	114	48.9	98	52.4
6–10	71	30.5	42	22.5
More than 12	32	13.7	26	13.9
Medical Disease					0.003 a
Yes	205	65.3	138	52.9
No	109	34.7	123	47.1
Mean age (years) (+ S.D.)	40.8	14.8	41.4	16.0	0.323c

^a Pearson’s Chi-square test (χ²), d.f.=1;

^b Pearson’s Chi-square test (χ²), d.f.=3;

^c Student’s t-test; SD = standard deviation